CVE-2018-10873 Memory corruption in spice:

What is CVE-2018-10873?

CVE-2018-10873 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Aug 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds checks. A malicious client or server, after authentication, could send specially crafted messages to its peer which would result in a crash or, potentially, other impacts.

Weakness: CWE-20, CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10873?

It affects 11 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus and 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10873?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-10873 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10873 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-10873, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10873, DLA-1486-1, DLA-1489-1, DSA-4319-1, GHSA-2r4x-v526-vv9j and 4 more.